D4ftpunk

Regular Member

can i use a bnc T connector to split my sat coax to 2 boxes, and will their be any signal loss or anything ?. also can i plug 2 coax's into 1 input somehow so i can recieve 2 sats at the same time using 2 dishes and 1 card/box ?

BGonaSTICK

Retired Moderator

You can only really have 1 receiver connected at a time, as each would try to supply a controlling voltage to the LNB, so a physical switch is the only way to eliminate one of them from the equation. Hence A/B switch. Looking the other way, where you have one receiver and two dishes, or LNB's that would work fine using a diseqc switch, which uses the power supplied by the single receiver, along with diseqc commands, also sent by the receiver to switch betwen the two LNB's, highband, lowband vertical and horizontal polarisation.